Panto season sees JM Barrie's Peter Pan flying into theatres this week, with new versions at Bristol Old Vic and Cardiff's Sherman Cymru. What better reason to dig out the Pans of yore?"Oh, for an hour of Herod," was Anthony Hope's murderous opinion of Peter Pan when it premiered at the Duke of York's theatre in London on 27 December 1904. Bernard Shaw was inclined to agree, arguing that the show was an "artificial f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM on December 5, 2012